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Fast Forward Danny Cohen Steps Down From Top Post at BBC
The BBC’s director of television, Danny Cohen, is leaving the corporation. Cohen, 40, who spent eight years at the British Broadcasting Corp. and had been director of television since 2013, said he is considering new positions in the United States and the United Kingdom. “In the last few weeks I’ve been approached about a number…
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Fast Forward London Orthodox School Ordered To Stop Asking Parents About Sex Lives
An Orthodox Jewish public school in London must stop asking parents about their sex lives in order for their children to gain admission, a school watchdog ordered. The Hasmonean High School in Barnet in north London asks parents on its admission form whether they observe the laws of family purity, under which women abstain from…
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Fast Forward Jeremy Corbyn Heckled at British Pro-Israel Event
Jeremy Corbyn, the newly elected leader of Britain’s Labor Party who has been accused of being anti-Israel, was heckled at a pro-Israel event. Corbyn spoke Tuesday night at a reception of the Labor Friends of Israel organization held at the party conference in Brighton. During his 10-minute speech he did not mention Israel, the London-based…
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Fast Forward Jeremy Corbyn Will Address British Pro-Israel Event
Jeremy Corbyn, the newly elected leader of Britain’s Labor Party who has been accused of being anti-Israel, will address a pro-Israel event. Corbyn will speak next week at the Labor Friends of Israel dinner, his office confirmed Thursday to The Jerusalem Post. Some 400 people, including about 30 members of Parliament, are scheduled to attend…
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Opinion Who’s Afraid of Jeremy Corbyn? No, Not All British Jews.
As a British Jew who supports Jeremy Corbyn, I was a little surprised to read Liam Hoare’s piece “.” It is disorientating to hear a group of which you are a member described as being univocal, particularly when the description fails to match your lived experience. Hoare’s tendency to present the British Jewish community to…
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Fast Forward Citing Kindertransport, 100 British Rabbis Demand Open Door for Refugees
More than 100 British Jewish clergy signed a letter urging the United Kingdom to take in more Syrian refugees. In a letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron, the rabbis and cantors referenced the 10,000 Jewish children that the United Kingdom rescued from the Nazis between 1938 and 1940. Two of the people delivering the…
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Fast Forward Jeremy Corbyn Claims ‘Element’ of Jewish Roots
The new leader of Britain’s Labor party who has been accused of tolerating anti-Semitism said he has some Jewish ancestry. Jeremy Corbyn told The Church Times that while his immediate family is Christian, he has a “Jewish element” in his background, the United Kingdom’s Jewish News reported. In the interview with the Christian publication, he…
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News Crisis on Continent Opens Britain’s Eyes to Plight of Refugees
On Sunday, September 6, in the sunny yard of a London school, I met Erica, a weary middle-aged woman from Eritrea whom I was trying to help. Over a Styrofoam cup of milky tea, she described her life—an unrelenting limbo of food vouchers, hand-outs and the unpredictable whim of local neighborhood councils. An asylum seeker,…
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